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Nov 18, 2009 · On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately...
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.
Aug 6, 2019 · CNN — On this date 74 years ago, the US dropped the first of two atomic bombs on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing more than 70,000 people instantly. A second bomb followed three days later...
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Aug 25, 2024 · atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, during World War II, American bombing raids on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1945) that marked the first use of atomic weapons in war.
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Aug 7, 2014 · The March 1945 firebombing of Tokyo alone killed some 120,000 Japanese. A ground invasion would have resulted in nearly immeasurable more casualties.
This background takes us to a review of American strategic options against Japan in 1945 apart from invasion—it is a nightmare scroll of “horribles.” Planners had proposed to destroy the Japanese rice crop with a chemical (TN8), though this might not be feasible before 1946.
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Aug 25, 2024 · Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - The bombing of Nagasaki: By the morning of August 9, 1945, Soviet troops had invaded Manchuria and Sakhalin Island, but there was still no word from the Japanese government regarding surrender. At 3:47 am the B-29 Bockscar took off from Tinian.
